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Salmond bank account 'hacked'

Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond has told the Leveson Inquiry his bank account might have been accessed by a reporter from The Observer. The paper's publisher says "we have been unable to find any evidence to substantiate his allegation."

The Deputy Prime Minister told the Leveson Inquiry that at a dinner party with Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks in 2009, he had been put at the "very end of the table where the children sit". He added that most of his meetings with editors and proprietors were "fairly humdrum".

He said when he became leader of the Lib Dems in 2008 many senior figures did not "know me from Adam".